New Mtbr Classifieds!

Hello All,

Mtbr has now launched a brand new Classifieds system. This new system has many great features and more security than our old system. Please read about the features, and if you have any questions/comments/concerns, please post them to this thread here.

We'll run both systems side by side for a two week period. After that, the old Classifieds system will be read only for 1 month.

Ads will not be transferred, but we expect most people to start using the new system right away.

Pricing has not yet been decided, but during the beta-launch, placing a basic ad will be free, upgrading to highlighted (darker grey background) is $2.00, upgrading to bold is $2.00, and upgrading to italic is $2.00.

Change requests

Can you add the category to each record (e.g. frame vs. full bike) in the Latest Ads Posted?

Since you can now have an open forum for comments, you're going to have things like "Don't buy his, I'll sell for less", etc. Are you going to post up rules for this type of thing or is it anything goes?

Can you add the category to each record (e.g. frame vs. full bike) in the Latest Ads Posted?

Since you can now have an open forum for comments, you're going to have things like "Don't buy his, I'll sell for less", etc. Are you going to post up rules for this type of thing or is it anything goes?

Thanks.

Two excellent suggestions, Homebrew. Definitely we'll try and get the category back for the Latest Ads Posted page. The old one had it, so the new one should two.

And yes, there will definitely be a need for guidelines for postings within an ad. Off the top of my head, the rules would be:

1.) no spamming other people's ads
2.) comments and questions would be restricted solely to the seller or their item

I don't think a search of the old classifieds turns up results from the new classifieds, which is a bummer. I posted an ad in the new section but hardly anyone is going to see it because most folks browse the old ones. A good way to get traffic to the new area would be to make searches run in the old classifieds return items from the new area.

Otherwise the spot looks good, and I posted one up just as easy as pie. Good stuff, and nice job implementing the pictures.

I don't think a search of the old classifieds turns up results from the new classifieds, which is a bummer. I posted an ad in the new section but hardly anyone is going to see it because most folks browse the old ones. A good way to get traffic to the new area would be to make searches run in the old classifieds return items from the new area.

Otherwise the spot looks good, and I posted one up just as easy as pie. Good stuff, and nice job implementing the pictures.

We're running the two systems side by side for 2 weeks, then shutting down posting to the old ones, which will remain read only for 30 days.

To tie the searches together would require too much coding for something that will be going away soon.

Judging from the number of listings, it looks like the new Classifieds have taken off very well! (of course, it just <i>might</i> have something to do with them being free....for now...)

Gregg-
Just a thought- the amount of information shown is overload for me when browsing. It it too difficult to discern what items are listed without taking in half of what people posted about the product. Could you cut that box down to a one line summary if more requests are posted?
Thanks, and keep it up!